Narrative Assessment Overview - Virginia

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Overview of Narrative Assessment

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VDOE WEBINAR PRESENTED BY: LAVAE HOFFMAN, PH.D., CCC-SLP UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

Benefits of Narrative Assessment

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Aligns with VDOE Guidance on comprehensive assessment

Provides systematic observation data that is considered an SLP probe in Virginia

Examines functional skill required for school success

Comprehensive Assessment Areas

3 Academic Activities

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What Is Language?

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Bloom & Lahey Model of Language

Content

Semantics

Form

Phonology Morphology

Syntax

Use

Pragmatics

What is language?

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Language involves the ability to integrate knowledge of

phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics to create

sentences and texts.

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What is Narration?

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Type of discourse involving orderly accounts of real or imagined events

Coherent sequences of utterances with a common theme

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Narratives Support Function

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Cognitive benefits

Mode of thought Long Term Memory

Social benefits -

Social discourse (oral and written)

Academic benefits

Classroom discourse Related to reading comprehension Ability to understand and learn from instruction in language

arts, social studies, history, science, and mathematics

Narratives Are Important

Thinking Social development Bridge to literacy Classroom

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Why Assess Narration?

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Narrative is a contextually relevant and pragmatically valid means of assessing a student's

ability to integrate language skills purposefully.

What Is A Narrative?

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Types of Narratives and

Required Components

Types of Narratives (Genre)

Recounts

Elicited factual reports of past events

Accounts (a.k.a. "personal narratives")

Spontaneously produced verbalizations about past events

Eventcasts

Descriptions of on-going or anticipated events

Scripts

General descriptions of typical event

Fictionalized Narratives (a.k.a. "Stories")

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Narrative Analysis

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Options for Speech-Language Pathologists

Narrative Analysis

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The process for narrative analysis involves 3 steps: 1. Elicit 2. Transcribe 3. Analyze

Eliciting Narrative Samples

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Narratives that differentiate between children with and without language impairment: Personal Narratives in Conversation ? (Hadley, 1998) Story Creation o Wordless Picture Books (Berman & Sloban, 1994) o Picture Sequences o Single Pictures

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Narrative Analysis

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Narratives may be analyzed by: 1. Macrostructure o Story Grammar o Episodic Complexity 2. Microstructure o Cohesion (lexical level) o Sentence Structure/Complexity (utterance level) o Lexical Diversity/Complexity

Macrostructure Analysis

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Setting Initiating Event Internal Response Plan Attempt Consequence Reaction Ending

Example of a Story

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Story Structure

Story = Setting + Episodic Structure

Setting: introduces the main characters, the protagonist, and the context of time and place

"There was a little girl. Her name was Lisa."

Story Structure

Episodic Structure:

Initiating Event (IE): The occurrence that influences the main character(s) to action. Could be an internal event such as a thought, perception or wish.

"She got lost in a forest."

Parts of Story Grammar

Episodic Structure:

Action (A): the actions of the main character in pursuit of the goal.

"She looked and looked until she saw a bird who told her to follow it, so she did."

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Parts of Story Grammar

Episodic Structure :

Consequence (C): the achievement (or not) of the goal, as well as any other events or states that might result.

"She finally got home."

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Macrostructure: Analyzing Episodes

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Microstructure Analysis

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Grammatical Complexity Story Ideas (propositions) Complexity of Vocabulary Cohesion Dialogue Creativity Literate language

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